The Postal Service has service performance goals for time it should take to deliver a piece of mail after it is collected. These goals are called Service Standards, and they vary by class of mail and by distance between collection and delivery locations.

The U.S. Postal Service must maintain public trust and security of the mail as well as assure confidence in the reliability and integrity of its employees. To accomplish this, the Postal Service selects and retains qualified individuals who meet Postal Service security interests as well as the national security interests of the United States.

The rapid growth of ecommerce has created many opportunities for the Postal Service. This holiday season, online spending is expected to grow between 17 and 22 percent; driving package delivery growth. Additionally, the Postal Service expects to deliver 900 million packages this holiday season.

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I live on Maple St in North Berwick, ME. I have had several days over the last year where mail was simply not delivered. When I’ve called the post office for clarification, the only answer I received...

As of today, 12/17/18 the post office left 3 packages at my front door that were not mine nor to any address on my block. They went to 3 different addresses in Houston. My post office is Oak Forest,...

A microbusiness is just what its name implies. Very small. As in nine employees or less. But don’t let size fool you — microbusinesses are essential to the U.S. economy, making up roughly 75 percent of private businesses.

Like clockwork they arrive: Halloween, Thanksgiving, and then the SARC.

The SARC?! Yes, we submit our Semiannual Report to Congress, or SARC, in the late fall and spring each year. This SARC outlines our work and activities for the six-month period of April 1 through September 30, 2018,...

The Postal Service has service performance goals for time it should take to deliver a piece of mail after it is collected. These goals are called Service Standards, and they vary by class of mail and by distance between collection and delivery locations.

The Postal Service has completed several initiatives over the past five years to reduce costs and optimize its processing network. One of those initiatives is to Optimize the Network Platform. The initiative is responsible for evaluating, right-sizing, and equipping the mail-processing...

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